Campaign Groups and Pairs 305 Pair: Lieutenant E. Colvill, Royal Air Force, late Lovat's Scout's 1914-15 Star (3645, Tptr. E. Colvill, Lovat's Scts.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. E. Colvill. R.A.F.), good very fine
Pair: Captain E. N. St J. Dickinson, Leicestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. J. St J. Dickinson. Leic. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. N. St J. Dickinson.), polished, very fine (4)
£70-£90
Eion Colvill was born in Campbeltown, Aberdeenshire, on 18 March 1897 and served as a Trumpeter with the Lovat's Scouts before he was commissioned into the Scottish Rifles. He later served with the Royal Air Force.
E. N. St. John Dickinson served in some capacity with the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. x306 Three: Corporal F. Lucas, South African Engineering Corps 1914-15 Star (Cpl. F. Lucas S.A.E.C.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Cpl. F. Lucas. S.A.E.C.) good very fine
Six: F. D. Voges, South African Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named ‘225708 F. D. Voges’, very fine (9)
£60-£80 307 Pair: Master A. Gladney, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Arthur Gladney) very fine
Five: attributed to Midshipman M. Younger, Royal Naval Reserve 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-3; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine
Four: Able Seaman J. R. Silcock, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (John Richie Silcock) good very fine
Three: attributed to Stewardess M. Bolton, Merchant Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine
Three: Lieutenant L. F. Smith, Cape Town Highlanders Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named ‘19436 L. F. Smith’, mounted as worn, contact wear, generally very fine (17)
£140-£180 Arthur Gladney was born in Scarborough in 1865. His Medal card notes he was a Master in the Mercantile Marine.
Michael Younger served as a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second War. Sold with original Admiralty Casualty Card, and some documentation relating to his brother, Robert Peter Younger, who served as a Merchant Navy Cadet during the Second War, and was killed in action when his ship, the S.S. Designer was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-98 off the Portuguese coast on 9 July 1941.
John Richie Silcock was born in Prestwick, Scotland on 3 March 1926. He joined the Royal Navy on 18 February 1944, and served as an Able Seaman in the escort carrier H.M.S. Activity between 21 December 1944 and 25 September 1945. In civilian life he was a postman in Glasgow, and was awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement in 1986 (London Gazette 18 April 1986). Sold with original Certificate of Service, a photograph of H.M.S. Activity’s Ship’s company, and other research
Maud Bolton was born in Manchester on 3 June 1883. Joining the Merchant Navy, she is noted as serving as a Stewardess aboard S.S. Duchess of Bedford from 31 March 1939 until May 1940, making many voyages between Liverpool and Montreal and Saint John. Joining S.S. Duchess of Atholl in June 1940, she made a further three trips to and from the same port, her last on 16 August 1940. She had service until a single sailing in May 1945, followed by four more in 1946; all between Manchester and Canada. She was discharged from the Merchant Navy in 1947.
Sold with original Board of Trade Continuous Service Certificate of Discharge
Leslie Frederick Smith, from Mouille Point, Cape Town, attested for full time service on 1 July 1940, having served as a Volunteer in with Cape Town Highlanders from 1934. Serving with this unit in Africa in 1941, he transferred to the Kimberley Regiment in 1942, serving the rest of the War in the Union.
Sold with service papers which confirm this was Smith’s full entitlement. 308 Three: Lieutenant G. Hildick-Smith, 8th South African Infantry
1914-15 Star (Lt. G. Hildick-Smith 8th Infantry.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals Lt. G. Hildick-Smith.); together with a Transvaal Scottish Volunteers lapel badge, good very fine (3)
£60-£80 309
Pair: Master F. H. Ponting, Mercantile Marine, who was killed in action when the S.S. Kathleen was sunk by an enemy submarine, 5 August 1917
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Fred H. Ponting.) both in named card boxes of issue, in outer envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. H. Ponting, 3 Purbeck Street, Cardiff’; Memorial Plaque (Fred Hewitt Ponting) in card envelope of issue, in outer envelope similarly addressed, extremely fine (3)
£70-£90
Fred Hewitt Ponting served during the Great War as a Master in the Mercantile Marine, and was killed in action on 5 August 1917, when the S.S. Kathleen, 3,915 tons, of the Universal Steam Navigation Company, was attacked and sunk by the enemy submarine U100 90 miles west of Skelligs Rock Lighthouse off the southern Irish coast, whilst on passage from Norfolk, Virginia, to Limerick, carrying a cargo of wheat and maize. Ponting is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial. His widow, Hermine Ponting, was, until her marriage, a German national, who was born in Hannover in August 1881.
Sold with an emergency Passport issued by the United States of America to the recipient’s wife and children, allowing them to leave Germany and return to Britain, dated 25 August 1914; and copied research.
For the German group of medals attributed to the recipient’s wife’s family, see Lot 820.
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